Maharastra teachers to be trained by Microsoft

The government of Maharashtra has further extended the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed with Microsoft India for training teachers with basic computer skills to improve computer education better in schools in the state.



Initially Microsoft had set up institutes in Pune, Nagpur and Aurangabad and had also trained 92,000 teachers.

This MoU would be an extension to this program. Microsoft would train 6,000 teachers and 100,000 pre-service teachers in the next two years.

This is being done keeping in mind the job readiness of the students and Microsoft would also help to build the last-mile capacity among teachers.

Every teacher would have to take a 10-day long training module in a proper classroom environment.